Would doing so be 'ethical' or just being a "tattle-tale"? I would like to know thoughts on this subject, from an educator's point of view.
2007-09-01 07:04:41 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Teaching
Absolutely. One student's cheating can harm another student, and I need to know about it. I've had some odd experiences with that over the years. Once I had a student tell me that someone had offered her a copy of my exam for sale the day before the test. I had to laugh and tell her she was lucky she had saved her money, because I had not yet written the exam! Another time I had a student turn in a second print-out of his friend's paper (the two were inseparable), but he had crossed out his friend's name and had written his own in pencil underneath it, as if I wouldn't notice! I had one student who plagiarized by sticking together five pages from each of three completely unrelated articles written in very different styles, joining them with brief, ungrammatical sentences of her own (so basically she wrote three sentences of the fifteen-page paper). She never cited the articles, but helpfully provided a bibliography which contained exactly three sources - the three from which she had copied!
Some schools are now using programs like Turnitin.com to check for plagiarism, but not all schools accept that, and it is impossible for many faculty members to catch the more subtle forms of cheating. You don't have to gloat or seem triumphant when you tell me what you know, but I very much appreciate any information which will help make my classrooms fairer.
2007-09-01 07:20:03 · answer #1 · answered by neniaf 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
As an educator, I would always like to know if someone had cheated.
However, I would also be happy with a report that there is cheating going on.
I know sometimes a student can't report without it being clear to the cheater who told.
I way to get around this is to have kids sign an honesty pledge that states they will not cheat nor will they knowingly assist in cheating, including having knowledge of cheating without reporting it. And making consequences for breaking the pledge. Then the "tattle-tale" feels less guilty as they could get in trouble too.
2007-09-01 07:53:04 · answer #2 · answered by apbanpos 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
I would certainly hope so. It would be ethical and not a tattle tale. I would much rather see a kid get caught and learn a lesson than go on to cheat as adult with much worse consequences. I have seen it happen. I wish my students had more of a sense of ownership of the educational process. it only really works well if people are honest. I can't keep people from cheating, I can only make it harder.
2007-09-01 08:42:16 · answer #3 · answered by Cindy B 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Definitely. It doesn't matter who reports it, or how it is found out. Plagiarism is cheating. It's stealing. If one turns a blind eye then he/she is saying that it would be okay to have someone use their work without acknowledgment, or that it is fine to pick and chose which examples of plagiarism should be challenged and which would not. Knowingly using someone else's work and claiming it as your own is wrong.
2007-09-01 11:56:51 · answer #4 · answered by kennyj 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
as long as you cite the sources, this is not any longer plagiarism. Plagiarism is once you contain expenditures without declaring the source. the actuality that yet another student used the comparable sources is beside the point.
2016-12-12 15:19:28 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well being an educator teachers know their studenst well and should be able to figure out themselves if the work is not their own. also unless you have proof thats not right to report.
2007-09-01 07:17:29 · answer #6 · answered by elle 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes, it should be reported by anyone that knows that information.
2007-09-02 05:51:57 · answer #7 · answered by Amanda M 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
um no, teachers have their way of finding out. dont try and be the care police
2007-09-01 07:12:08 · answer #8 · answered by GuyDudeMan 2 · 0⤊ 4⤋